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Did an English company famous for its hidden purpose in the 1720s ever reveal its undertaking?
No.
Abel Boyer (The Political State of Great Britain, 1720) lists this under "List of other Bubbles" in July 1720:
For carrying on an Undertaking of great Advantage, but no body to know ...
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Did an English company famous for its hidden purpose in the 1720s ever reveal its undertaking?
The article An undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is: Bubbles and gullibility by Andrew Odlyzko(PDF), supposes the story to be apocryphal, or perhaps an amalgam of several not-...
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